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Clicking on "Photos" under LIBRARY only displays results for one project

I created a new smart album and loaded it with pictures from a vacation trip. Clearly I've done something bizarre because now when I click on the "Photos" button under "Library"in the inspector, all I see are the photoes from my recently created smart album. I've checked every place I can see to make sure I haven't got a filter set. All my projects are still in place and all my photoes are still accessible through the "Projects"view and they're all still listed in the inspector under "Projects & Albums". I just can't see all my photos when I click on "Photos"... this used to work... any ideas what I might have inadvertantly done?

THanks

Jim

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 8, 2011 4:16 AM

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Kirby Krieger

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Hi Jim. Try this. If it works, thank Frank Caggiano 🙂 .

Posted on Nov 8, 2011 4:41 AM

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Nov 12, 2011 9:53 AM in response to jimc31415

Let me jump in here for a second.

You wrote that you were in the process of creating a smart filter and adding keywords to images when the problem popped up again. Can you explain in more detail what you were doing? Normally a smart album is created after some metadata is added to images in order to group those images. When you first create a smart album it is empty and the filter for it is clear. How were you adding keywords to images then? Where were the images?

So here I just created a new smart album:

As I said above its empty and no images are in this smart album. Now if i leave that smart filter HUD open and click on Photos in the library tab I see this:

Are you seeing the same thing? Notice the filters title Smart Settings: Photos

regards

léonie

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Nov 12, 2011 9:51 AM in response to jimc31415

Let's wait for Frank Caggiano and Kirby Krieger to come back to this thread ...😝

jimc31415 Author

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Nov 24, 2011 4:21 AM in response to léonie

Gave up messing around with the filters. Did a complete backup of library and a complete rebuild of the library. Magically everything now works as it should... click on "photos"everything shows up. The world is a beautiful place once again.

Thanks

Clicking on "Photos" under LIBRARY only displays results for one project